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Amalia S. Levi @amaliasl.bsky.social · 16h

Records manager, archivist, digital archivist

Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 1d

quantitative methods, qualitative methods, mixed methods

Photo of a Kansas City Chiefs press conference with Andy Reid, Travis Kelce, and Patrick Mahomes. Reid is wearing a gray suit and red tie with a lapel pin. Kelce is wearing a camp-style short-sleeved shirt with a bird print, along with a suede cap, and Mahomes is wearing a white collared shirt, a pink checkered double-breasted vest, and a pale pink tie.

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Caribbean Digital Scholarship Collective @caribbeandsc.bsky.social · 1d

The Introduction to Digital Publishing Handbook from the Digital Library of the Caribbean offers a guide to creating and sharing text-based digital publications.

Read the handbook at dloc.com/AA00114845/0...

#DigitalPublishing #OpenAccess #dLOC #CaribbeanArchives

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Amalia S. Levi @amaliasl.bsky.social · 2d

😂 Thanks, Karl--yes, after cutting back...in half.

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Amalia S. Levi @amaliasl.bsky.social · 2d

Thanks, Haim!

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Amalia S. Levi @amaliasl.bsky.social · 2d

📣 Officially submitted--all 450 pages of it!

My PhD dissertation titled "Dependent Lives In and Beyond Archives: Enslaved People in Sephardic Jewish Households in Early Modern Bridgetown, Barbados (1654-1800)."

Defense is being scheduled for December!

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Amalia S. Levi @amaliasl.bsky.social · 2d

Great to see the emphasis on public engagement as a way of giving back to the community, in crowdsourcing projects.

Important point: building the time for it into the workplan.

Dr Laura Sangha @lsangha.bsky.social · 2d

📢NEW POST📢

I had a chat with Catherine Hurcombe for the Public Engagement with Research at Exeter series.

Read on to learn more about the wills project engagement with volunteers and artists👇

#EarlyModern 🗃️ @uniofexeterhass.bsky.social @uoearchhist.bsky.social

sites.exeter.ac.uk/per/2025/09/...

What's in a Will? Using Public Engagement to Add Depth to a Project

In this interview, Catherine Hurcombe speaks to Dr Laura Sangha from the Department of Archaeology and History about her role on the research project, The Material Culture of Wills, England 1540-1790,...

sites.exeter.ac.uk

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Amalia S. Levi @amaliasl.bsky.social · 14d

Thank you, Jenny! :) I'll...survive these last hours ;)

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Amalia S. Levi @amaliasl.bsky.social · 14d

Putting final touches to my dissertation and hope to submit it tomorrow, and I keep thinking that I can't thank enough all the amazing, awesome people behind @zotero.org not only for creating it, but also for sustaining! Such a huge service!

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Amalia S. Levi @amaliasl.bsky.social · 21d

It'd be great if someone took pics of "endangered" signs and then added on an online map offering "alternative" trails with the scrubbed info. Maybe someone is already doing it, just wanted to put it out there.

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Amalia S. Levi @amaliasl.bsky.social · Sep 8

😬 😣🫤 💪 Sorry you're subjected to this, Alex...

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Amalia S. Levi @amaliasl.bsky.social · Sep 5

Beautiful archives and library infrastructure! 😍

(And lots of labor behind it!)

Richard Ovenden @richove.bsky.social · Sep 5

Always a joy to be at the @bodleian.ox.ac.uk Collections Storage Facility - around 14 m collection items preserved there for students and scholars

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Amalia S. Levi @amaliasl.bsky.social · Sep 4

@shannonmattern.bsky.social

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Amalia S. Levi @amaliasl.bsky.social · Sep 3

Not always, but often some records are deemed too fragile to handle, when actually this is used as a pretext to not make them accessible to users.

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Amalia S. Levi @amaliasl.bsky.social · Sep 3

The "fragility" of records. 😏

Often used to hamper access...

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Amalia S. Levi @amaliasl.bsky.social · Sep 2

I can imagine! Your approach is very relevant to one of the chapters of my dissertation, where a young man has been consistently described as "blind"--and maybe he was)--but the words of his father and his lived experience suggest differently. (And will now go back to the chapter to cite you :)).

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Amalia S. Levi @amaliasl.bsky.social · Sep 2

Great discussion by @drjpw.bsky.social about ethical/methodological pitfalls of legacy descriptions of archival material, and the need to be sensitive to lived experience of marginalized people in the past.

Jonathan Willis @drjpw.bsky.social · Sep 2

Are you curious about the potential for archival practices to shape the study of emotion; why there are letters in the English State Papers labelled 'mad'; or how the culture & politics of Elizabethan England shaped people's experience of distress? Find out here! doi.org/10.1017/S008... #earlymodern

‘your poore distressed suppliant’: ‘Madness’, Emotion and the Archive in Early Modern England | Transactions of the Royal Historical Society | Cambridge Core

‘your poore distressed suppliant’: ‘Madness’, Emotion and the Archive in Early Modern England

doi.org

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Amalia S. Levi @amaliasl.bsky.social · Aug 29

Never a boring day in the archives! 🙃

Orkney Library & Archive @orkneylibrary.bsky.social · Aug 29

Just removed the date label from an old book and discovered that someone has drawn a design for a teapot that can serve either tea or poison how's your day going?

A withdrawn library book. Under the date label there is a biro drawing of a teapot divided to serve either tea or poison

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History Workshop @historyworkshop.org.uk · Aug 28

How do we decolonise archives?

In this collaborative piece, researchers Christina Williamson, Beth Greenhorn, and Carol Payne and Inuit Elder Ann Meekitjuk Hanson reflect on the role of names in the colonial archive.

Project Naming

Explore the significance of Project Naming to decolonize archives and connect Inuit communities with their ancestral photographs.

www.historyworkshop.org.uk

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Amalia S. Levi @amaliasl.bsky.social · Aug 22

This looks amazing and can't wait for it!

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Dr Laura Sangha @lsangha.bsky.social · Aug 22

Editing revised chapters for the forthcoming 2nd edition of our guide to #EarlyModern 🗃️ sources today👌

The revised volume will also include 3 new chapters:

Part 1 'Sources':
- Digitised Sources

Part 2 'Histories':
- Race
- The Body, Mind & Emotions.

Front cover of a book called 'Understanding Early Modern Primary Sources', part of the Routledge Guides to Using Historical Sources series. edited by Laura Sangha and Jonathan Willis. The cover image is a painting of early modern objects - a pile of books and papers, a flask and glass, bread roll, lute and globe.

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Amalia S. Levi @amaliasl.bsky.social · Aug 22

This is amazing!

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Dr Laura Sangha @lsangha.bsky.social · Aug 21

📢GREAT RESOURCE📢

Stumbled on Carissa Chew's Inclusive Terminology Glossary, which collates information about historic & current usage of words related to race, ethnicity, sexuality, gender, disability.

itg.nls.uk/wiki/Introdu...

Chew Inclusive Terminology Glossary

itg.nls.uk

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Liesbeth Corens @onslies.bsky.social · Aug 17

OOOO! The latest special issue for the Journal of #EarlyModern History is on Archives & Objects, a dialogue between the archival and material turn 🤩

Would you look at that ace table of contents 🤩

brill.com/view/journal...
#YayArchives! #HistArchives!

screenshot of the table of contents. List of authors and titles:
Yonatan Glazer-Eytan and Giuseppe Marcocci: "Material Culture and Early Modern Archivality: A Dialogue"
Filippo de Vivo "A Cock for the Records: Posted Libels as Archival Objects"
Suzanna Ivanič "Piecing Back the Puzzle: Objects, Inventories, and the Problem of Classification"
Ana Struillou "Mobility, Material Culture, and the Archive: A View from the Mediterranean"
Subah Dayal "Mughal Hands, Envelopes, and the Materiality of Trans-Imperial Archives"
Anne T. Gerritsen "Kang Wang’s Helmet and the Archivality of Chinese Popular Religious Practice"

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Emily Hunt @emily.space · Aug 15

I really dislike how science has started calling almost any fancy computational technique AI. 🧪

The framing of this entire article makes it sound like a benevolent AI independently made these drugs.

That is *pure fantasy*.

Instead: a team of scientists made a machine learning model for a study.

Article on BBC news.
Title: AI designs antibiotics for gonorrhoea and MRSA superbugs
Description: Two new potential drugs have been designed by AI to kill drug-resistant bacteria, in a major Massachusetts Institute of Technology study.

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Amalia S. Levi @amaliasl.bsky.social · Aug 6

I've contributed an essay to this DEPENDENT issue:

"Archival Trajectories: Information Beyond Content"

It gives an overview of my PhD research that focuses on why we find what we find, i.e., the many recordkeeping and archival dependencies that underpin what is visible and accessible today.

Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies @dependencybonn.de · Aug 6

📣The new DEPENDENT on "Archives" is out now! This edition explores archives not as neutral repositories, but as active, contested spaces where power, resistance, and memory intersect.
👉More info: ow.ly/I4W450WzRGz
@unibonn.bsky.social @dfg.de

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